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Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† ...
According to the Energy Information Administration, West Virginia is a top coal producer in the United States, second only to Wyoming. West Virginia is located in the heart of the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Bed, which stretches from Tennessee north to New York in the middle of Appalachia.
The West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society was headquartered in Charleston in 1890. [21] [22] In 1891, the West Virginia Colored Institute, now known as West Virginia State University, was established. The next year, Capitol City Commercial College was founded. [23]
The main article for this category is List of cities in West Virginia; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in West Virginia; See also West Virginia and categories Towns in West Virginia, Villages in West Virginia, Census-designated places in West Virginia, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated five combined statistical areas, 10 metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in West Virginia. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY CSA , which includes West Virginia's capital and largest city, Charleston .
West Virginia University constitutes 913 acres (369 hectares) of the city and vicinity, and with the fall 2012 enrollment added an additional population of 29,707 students. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, [ citation needed ] Morgantown had some of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States as of early 2009.
West Virginia portal; This category includes articles on populated places in the United States state of West Virginia. For incorporated cities, towns, and villages, see Category:Municipalities in West Virginia